Ernest Cline
Author of Ready Player One
About the Author
Ernest Cline is an American screenwriter and novelist. He was born in 1972 and grew up in rural Ohio. In 1998, Cline wrote a screenplay entitled, Fanboys, about the craze surrounding the prequels to the Star Wars movies. Over a decade later, the movie was finally released in 2009. However, creative show more differences and his dissatisfaction with the final edit, led Cline to quit screenwriting and write a novel. That novel, based on an idea he had been considering for years, became the New York Times Bestseller, Ready Player One. His second novel, Armada released in 2015 also became a New York Times Bestseller. He made the Hollywood Reporter's 'Most Powerful Authors' 2016 list, entering at number 12. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Ernest Cline
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Associated Works
Anime Impact: The Movies and Shows that Changed the World of Japanese Animation (2018) — Contributor — 42 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Cline, Ernest
- Legal name
- Cline, Ernest Christy
- Birthdate
- 1972-03-29
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Ashland, Ohio, USA
- Places of residence
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Occupations
- cook
store clerk
spoken word artist
screenwriter - Relationships
- Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe (wife)
- Agent
- Yfat Reiss-Gendell
- Short biography
- ERNEST CLINE is an internationally best-selling novelist, screenwriter, father, and full-time geek. He is the author of the novels Ready Player One and Armada and co-screenwriter of the film adaptation of Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg. His books have been published in over fifty countries and have spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his family, a time-traveling DeLorean, and a large collection of classic video games.
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Discussions
Ready Player Two in Science Fiction Fans (March 2022)
Ready Player One in Gamers (March 2019)
Ready Player One in The Green Dragon (July 2013)
Ready PLayer One {Spoilers Possible} in The Green Dragon (July 2012)
Chat about... Ready Player One by Ernest Cline in The SF&F Book Chat (February 2012)
Reviews
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
This wasn't the first time I listened to this book, and it won't be the last. This is the book that made me love audiobooks. Wil Wheaton's performance is superb. The story is fantastic. Highly recommended.
I wanted to like this book, I really did, but there were a few things that I couldn't come to terms with. First of all, I love everything this book is about, virtual reality, online gaming, dystopian futures, nerd culture and the 80's, for me this should be a recipe for an incredibly awesome adventure... But it wasn't. First of all, the writing was really flat, I understand it's supposed to be first person limited perspective of the kid, but I just couldn't connect with it. I'm not sure how to explain it, but the writing just seemed amateurish, informal, but not informal enough to be stylized.
Though frankly, my biggest issue was with the premise of being obsessed with the 80's in the year 2044. Don't these kids have modern bands / films / animation too, or is everything only a big throw-back? I understand that might be missing the point, I just for some reason couldn't buy into that reality, it's like the equivalent of every kid in the 2000's being obsessed with big band music or doing the charleston. Most of the book seems like a never-ending name drop, where every moment they'd throw in something like how the protagonist was listening to billy idol or marathoning knight rider while R2D2 served him drinks. It feels somehow artificial, like I was getting the sense of the perspective really being that of someone in the year 2012 writing about someone in 2044 talking about 1980's nerd culture. I had too much of a sense of the author's presence in this time period.
If I turned off my brain and just enjoyed it, this book was great! However when I started thinking about the world of the book and the writing, I had a hard time. Oddly enough if there's a sequel, I will probably read it. I like the characters and the world, but I just want to see beyond the never-ending sea of 80's references and an improvement in writing style.… (more)
Though frankly, my biggest issue was with the premise of being obsessed with the 80's in the year 2044. Don't these kids have modern bands / films / animation too, or is everything only a big throw-back? I understand that might be missing the point, I just for some reason couldn't buy into that reality, it's like the equivalent of every kid in the 2000's being obsessed with big band music or doing the charleston. Most of the book seems like a never-ending name drop, where every moment they'd throw in something like how the protagonist was listening to billy idol or marathoning knight rider while R2D2 served him drinks. It feels somehow artificial, like I was getting the sense of the perspective really being that of someone in the year 2012 writing about someone in 2044 talking about 1980's nerd culture. I had too much of a sense of the author's presence in this time period.
If I turned off my brain and just enjoyed it, this book was great! However when I started thinking about the world of the book and the writing, I had a hard time. Oddly enough if there's a sequel, I will probably read it. I like the characters and the world, but I just want to see beyond the never-ending sea of 80's references and an improvement in writing style.… (more)
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- Works
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- Popularity
- #845
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
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